Places Oops3ggs Wants to Go

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.